Agnes Freudenberg

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Agnes F. Hostettler

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Agnes Freudenberg Hostettler, a teacher of German, French and European folklore, died July 12 after a heart attack at Kennedy International Airport in New York as she was returning from a trip to Europe.

Dr. Hostettler, who was 75, had lived at the Broadmead retirement community in Cockeysville since 1991.

She had been a volunteer storyteller for children at the Epiphany Episcopal Church Day Care Center in Timonium since last year.

From 1985 until her final retirement in 1988, she taught German at Statesville High School in North Carolina. Before then, from 1980 until 1983, she was visiting professor of German and French at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C.

Dr. Hostettler was on the faculty of Queens College in Charlotte, N.C., from 1963 until 1976. She taught German, French and European folklore, and reached the rank of associate professor.

From 1959 until 1961, she taught French and German in high schools in Iredell County, N.C.

For her work in folklore, she was awarded the Cross of the Knights by the West German government in 1981.

The former Agnes Hedwig Freudenberg was born in Heidelberg, Germany. She graduated from Lutheran College in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and the University of Zurich in Switzerland and studied commercial art at a technical college in Basel, Switzerland.

In 1942, she married Ernst Hostettler in Switzerland and they came to the United States in 1949.

In this country, she earned a bachelor's degree in French and German from Lenoir Rhyne College in Hickory, N.C., and a master's degree in German and a doctorate in modern languages from Middlebury College in Vermont.

Dr. Hostettler was a former president of the American Association of Teachers of German, and a former vice president of the American Association of University Professors at East Carolina University and of the Statesville Chapter of the American Association of University Women. She was also a member of the American Folklore Society and the Pennsylvania-German Folklore Society.

In Charlotte, she started a society for German language and culture.

She was also active in the Charlotte Friends Meeting, serving on its Peace Committee. She was a member of the American Friends Service Committee delegation to the Paris peace talks that ended the Vietnam war in 1973.

Mr. Hostettler died in 1980.

memorial service for Mrs. Hostettler is to be conducted at 2 p.m. Sept. 4 in the auditorium at Broadmead, 13801 York Road.

She is survived by five daughters, Dorothea H. Scandella of Gaithersburg, Anna H. Hooker of Towson, Verena H. Putnam of Middlebury, Vt., Susan H. Fullas of Allentown, Pa., and Rebecca H. Babbitt of Burlington, Vt.; a sister, Marie Louise Freudenberg of Locust Valley, N.Y.; and eight grandchildren.

The family suggested memorial donations to the American Friends Service Committee or to the Residents Assistance Fund at Broadmead.

Familie/Ehepartner: Ernst Hostettler. Ernst wurde geboren am 5 Apr 1913 in Niedermuhlern, Kanton Bern, Schweiz; gestorben am 13 Mrz 1990 in Statesville Iredell, North Carolina. [Familienblatt] [Familientafel]